Ready to be poured out

My small group ate dinner at Panera last night. We had just sat down with our food and there were about 3 different conversations going on at the same time in this group of 7 girls. One of my friends looks at me and she laughs and says, "We are all so busy! Listen to us talking about all the stuff we've done. We're really busy people!"

She's so right. I am so busy. The only time I can remember NOT being busy was the two months between getting back from Mexico and starting my job. It was the slowest, quietest time I can think of up to this point -- in the good way. (Then the storm hit, haha)

We're all busy, and we know it. And sometimes we feel like it's good and productive and sometimes we feel exhausted. What I'm looking at right now is... Am I busy for God? Or am I just busy. I can be hurried, and my schedule can be full, and I can rush through my day blindly. And then I'll miss God. I'll shut Him out and I won't see any of the opportunities He puts before me. Let me just say, Guilty!

Orrrrrr..... I can get busy for God. I can focus on Him, and hit up those opportunities, and when I get exhausted I can draw strength from Him! That's what I want in my life. Godly business and spiritual exhaustion from serving Him. I see a lot of people in my life experiencing that exhaustion right now. And drawing renewed energy from the Source. Man, it's encouraging!! God is at work all around me, but I don't want Him to be at work just around me -- I want Him to be at work in me!!

Use me Lord! Pour me out and exhaust me in Your will and for Your glory.
And when the results are too much for me to bear, let me lean on Your almighty strength, Amen!

Isaiah 40:28-31 (NIV)
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.